Tom explained that after that night, he didn’t allow himself to think about what had happened between him and Thordis

But then her feelings of gratitude turned to horror as he removed her clothes and got on top of her.

She said: “My head had cleared up, but my body was still too weak to fight back, and the pain was blinding. I thought I’d been severed in two.

“In order to stay sane, I silently counted the seconds on my alarm clock.

“And ever since that night, I’ve known that there are 7,200 seconds in two hours.”

Thordis was left “limping for days” and crying for weeks, but she struggled to come to terms with what had happened to her.

It didn’t seem like rape as she’d previously thought of it. That was because Tom was her boyfriend and it happened in her home.

By the time Thordis finally realised she wasn’t to blame and felt confident enough to call what happened to her rape, Tom had gone back to Australia.

He also discussed the attack on stage, admitting at first he didn’t class it as rape.

Tom explained: “I have vague memories of the next day.

“The after effects of drinking, a certain hollowness that I tried to stifle. Nothing more.

“But I didn’t show up at Thordis’s door. It is important to now state that I didn’t see my deed for what it was.
“The word rape didn’t echo around my head as it should have and I wasn’t crucifying myself of memories of the night before.